Explore Spreadsheets with Millions of Rows

by Jason Strauss CSV files are chunks of text used to move data between spreadsheets, databases, and programming languages. Spreadsheet software, like Excel, can have a difficult time opening very large CSVs. I'll explain why large CSVs are difficult to work with and outline some tools to open big CSV files.

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Last year, we discovered VQL: an online tool that lets non-engineers analyze massive databases. At that time Jason Strauss, the creator of that tool and the founder of VQL as a company, said that it was aimed at "people who have data and don't know what to do with it."